Peter Orlando Hutchinson spent all his adult life inSidmouth, Devon. The son of a doctor and a man ofadequate means, he was able to pursue a wide range ofinterests extraordinary even by Victorian standards.Everything interested him, from fishermen's tales tointernational politics, and into his diary went suchdetails as precise astronomical measurements, thelatest methods of preserving telegraph poles, thedesign of an iron-clad gunboat he proposed to the government,and the result of testing explosive shells of hisown design on Sidmouth beach.His many talents matched his interests whetherperforming on the flute or French Horn in public concertsin Exeter, carving decorative stonework for thenewly restored Sidmouth church, or building his homethe Old Chancel, out of discarded fragments ofchurches in the vicinity.His pioneering geological observations and archaeologicalresearches arc now of special value, particularlyhis mapping of Bronze Age burial mounds of south-eastDevon, many of which have now disappeared. Above all,it is as an artist and inveterate recorder of what he sawand heard that makes Hutchinson¿s diaries and sketchbookssuch a valuable and interesting addition to theliterature of Devon. It is these that are broughttogether and published in this superbly illustrated book.The text for this work is based on Hutchinson¿s fivevolumediary now held in the Devon Record Office,supplemented here and there with extracts fromletters and other manuscript sources. The illustrationscome from six volumes of sketchbooks, also held in theDRO. These contain hundreds of watercolours, many ofwhich are miniature masterpieces. Other watercoloursand fine pen-and-ink sketches are taken from the diaries,from manuscripts sent to the Society of Antiquaries inLondon, from Hutchinson's manuscript history ofSidmouth (in the West Country Studies Library), andelsewhere, totalling over 450 illustrations.
Captain-general and Governor-in-chief of His Late Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America ... Compiled from the Original Documents Still Remaining in the Possession of His Descen
Captain-general and Governor-in-chief of His Late Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America ... Compiled from the Original Documents Still Remaining in the Possession of His Descen
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